EVO 2008 ends and the new year begins

The end of this year’s EVO session is in sight, with it officially ending tomorrow. It is always an interesting time for me. I am enthusiastic about incorporating new tools in my teaching, but there is always the challenge of actually doing something. I know that I have learned a lot in this EVO session. [...]

Educase’s 7 Things You Should Know About Flickr

The latest in Educase’s series 7 Things You Should Know About… series is about Flickr.  It can be downloaded here. I like these because they are short introductions of the topic.  Even nicer, I think, is the fact that each document in the series gives an academic scenario in which the tool could be used.  [...]

Tools vs. networks

Reading the feeds in my Bloglines account this morning, I was interested to see this post by Will Richardson. He is talking about the need to change the culture of education. He says There are lots of good things happening in the education space around these technologies, no doubt. Lots of teachers and students doing [...]

An observation

I have to admit that I am enjoying playing with the social tools we are looking at as part of SMiELT. It is interesting to me that I, at least, need some time to become really familiar with a site before I can see the value in it. Because I have blogged for three years [...]

Playing on Flickr

Between sneezes I have been looking at Flickr more.  I was interested by a question in the Dekita group discussion area about why a picture didn’t show up on the map.  So I decided to work to see what I could discover.  And the answer was…  NOTHING. I was able to locate my photos on [...]

A great chat

We just had a great chat on the SMiELT site. Sorry not everyone could make it. Chats like that one are difficult because there are many participants, and we all like to “talk”. It can be hard to follow, to know who is saying what in response to whom. But the feeling of community is [...]

Another fan of Twitter, at least sort of

I just read this post Today in Twitterville on The Moss-Free Stone. He mentions things he learned through a morning’s tweets while doing other work. Now that I am spending more time on Twitter, I have to admit that I am starting to like it. I would never have thought it.

Flickr and Writing

Reading my Bloglines feeds this morning, I came across a post by Bryan Alexander about Flicktion. Flicktion is text inspired by images on Flickr. Some examples that I like can be found here and here. This is what I was thinking about in my previous post about using Flickr. I had not thought about having [...]

Trouble with WordPress

Actually, that title is misleading. I like wordpress just the way it is. But it won’t let me insert the badges that we are supposed to add this week. I remember last year when I started this blog. After 2 years of using Blogger, I had to learn a lot. My problems then, as now, [...]

Week 2 tasks

I have put off posting about this week’s tasks because of this question: Are you promoting open participatory skills in ELT? How? It sounds so simple and innocent. Of course I am! But then the kicker: How? In my present job I have to say that I really am not doing much. Looking at the [...]